Mark Fisher‘s recent piece on “Exiting the Vampire Castle” earned a response (“B-Grade Politics“) from Angela Mitropoulos. EDIT 27/11/13: See comments below. I am accused of individualising critique on the grounds it is ‘personal’. I’ve removed the section that placed Angela’s comments in the context of her other recent online postings where she is critical of […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Forget OOO 2: The Nadir of OOO
Review of OOO as a movement by Nathan Brown, from Tool-Being to Realist Magic: In order to stake its claim to originality and supremacy, “OOO” has to fulminate against what it sees as a threatening field materialists, purveyors of “scientism,” process philosophers, Deleuzians, and systems theorists. […] Yet many readers, perhaps trying to find an […]
The Aspirational as Affective Fact
So what is an affective fact? The mechanism is quite simple: Threat triggers fear. The fear is of disruption. The fear is a disruption. Brian Massumi’s concept of the “affective fact” was an attempt to come to terms with post-911 governance by George Bush Jr. The concept foregrounds the virtual in governance. In The Future […]